Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-12
BIG FLOODS.
A Large Area in the Suburbs OF Chicago
Under WATERFRONT 100000
Damages at Lyons, Mich.
Many Towns Threatened IN Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan and Ohio-The
Worst Not Over.
LIE MICHIGAN FLOODS.

LYONS, Mich, Feb. 1.-THE flood here
is simply terrible. a panic has seized
the people and it Is impossible to esti-
mate the losses. The water Is four feet
deep in many residences. Up to last
night three buildings had been washed
away and demolished. Many others are
badly damaged. Alexander McFarland's
family are sick and are cut off from as
sistanCe.
At Muir the same serious conditions
prevail and the merchants have abandoned
their stores.
Specials from other points are to the
same effect, but Lyons seems to be the
worst sufferer.
Fred Winters of Charlotte was drowned
while trying to cross Thornepple river.
TaE SITUATION WORSE AT LYONS.
DETROIT, Mich, Feb. ll.-At Lyons a
slight abatement of the flood was noticed
last night, but it ID in all its force this
morning. Rain fell in torrents until
about midnight, when it changed to snow,
and by daylight fully eight inches of
snow had fallen. There is regular
northeaster with a twenty mile wind.
The water has risen two feet in the last
pie are worn out working night and day
to save their property. Maple and Grand
rivers unite here, and both are raging.
Should the Lansing ice reach here before
the gorge gives way all the business
places on the north side of Main street
will be washed away A rough estimate
of the damage makes the aggregate be
tween SIS, 900 and 100000.
FROM OTHER MICHIGAN TOWNS.
DETROIT, Mich, Feb. II. - Three
Rivers is surrounded with water. All the
shops have been closed at that point. The
immense lumber piles there are Gfioat.
The Lake Shore track is in great danger
of being washed away.
At Monroe the rlver has been rising
slowly for the past twenty-four hours,
but the ice has broken, giving passage
to the lake. The banks of the river are
lined with walls of ice and frozen snow,
rising eight or ten feet above the present
high water mark.
AT Jackson the pressure of the water in
Grand river in the mill-pond above the
city was too great, and last night the
sluices we're opened, with the result that
the water rose several feet, and the Grand
Trunk bridge is now under water. The
cellars in the business blocks in the CEN
ter of the town are ell flooded.
IN INDIANA AND OHIO.
FORT WAYNE, IND Feb. 1.-THE
Miami, st. Joseph and st. Mary's rivers
rose five feet last night and the food
now threatens to surpass the memorable
one four years ego. A number of families
residing In the lower district of the city
have removed to the upper stories Of
their residences or have abandoned them
altogether. At the river points between
Fort Wayne and Toledo great distress is
reported. Many factories have shut
down and :he employees have been
put to work surrounding the works by
dykes. The water is now within 8 foot
of the floors of the principal bridges and
they must shortly be cut off from COM
munication by wagon roads from the
north. The river is now rising six inches
an hour and rain is falling.
THE CHICAGO FLOODS.
CHICAGO, IL, Feb. 1.-THE local
floods to-day have not materially changed.
In the southwest district the river was
rising slowly, and the surrounding terri
tory was heavily inundated. The cellars
of houses in the southwest that were
flooded are worse off to-day than yester-
day, the surface water of the heavy rain
of last night having poured in upon the
overflow. Considerable damage to
property is reported on Blue Island
avenue from Eighteenth street to West
ern avenue, and on the cross streets ad-
iacent to the river banks. The overflow
at the docks of the Mccormack factory
this morning measured little over three
feet, but it did not prevent the running
of the factory.
The situation In the northwest section
Is more hopeful. The rain was less gen.
eral there, and the river was falling, still
there were large areas covered with
water.